Package for tungsten lamps.



W. LUMLEY.

PACKAGE FOR TUNGSTEN LAMPS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 27. 1909.

Patente@ Jan. 30, 1912.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oFFlC-Ef WILFRIIJ LUMLEY, OF EAST GONNEAUT, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO T-I-IE GONNEAUT GOMPANY, A CORPORAT-ION/OF'OHIO. v

Specification oLetters Eatent.

Patented Jan. 30,1912.

Application filed January 27, 1909. Serial No. 474,384.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILFRID LUMLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Conneaut, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Packages for Tungsten Lamps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to a package for shipping tungsten lamps which are exceedingly delicate and fragile and which of necessity must frequently be shipped in conjunction with heavier material such as the chandeliers, globes and other elements of electric lighting fixtures.

The object of the invention has been to provide a shipping package in which provision is made for the safe transmission of the tungsten lamps so that their filaments shall not be broken in transit regardless of the presence of the heavier parts of the lighting fixture and the rough usage to Vwhich such packages are ordinarily subjected. A

The above objects and other desirable advantages it will be seen are attained by that embodiment of my invention described in the Jfollowing specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which;

Figure lis a perspective view of a package embodying my invention, part of the covers being removed and part brokenv away for the purpose of better illustration. Fig. 2 is a detail longitudinal section through the end of the package. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through that portion of the package in .which the globes and lighting fixtures are held.

The package as a whole comprises a casing A which may be divided into two sections preferably by means of a solid partition board A as shown, though other securing means for retaining the various articles in place may be employed. In that section of the package devoted to the lighting fixtures I employ bloclm B for retaining the chandelier C in position after it has been wrapped and inserted in place. I provide transverse boards B with openings at their ends properly spaced to receive the smaller ends of the glass globes D, the larger ends of which rest upon the floor of the box. By this arrangement these heavy portions of the lighting fixture are held against displacement and are not only protected during shipment but are prevented from being thrown against the small bundle or receptacle E in which the lamps are packed.

The lamp receptacle E comprises an envelop or wrapping preferably in the form of a pasteboard carton having compartments therein preferably made by means of small boxes, each box containing a single lamp E. Around each lamp is a soft packing, such as excelsior, inserted between the lamps and the walls of the compartment. The carton in which the lamps are held is suspended by means of elastic bands E2 attached to hooks E3 in the walls of that section of the shipping package devoted to the lamps, the said bands being secured to the carton by means of cord or twine E4 tied securely about the latter. The preferable manner of arranging these bands is to extend them diagonally away from the corners of the lamp bundle and in an outward direction,that is to say, in a direction away from the middle of the bundle. By this arrangement the elastics are taut without being greatly stretched and hold the lamp bundle suspended in the air free from contact and possibility of contact with any of the walls of the receptacle in which it is held.

By the arrangement above described it is possible to send the packages by freight without any other`provision for their protection than the addition of the ordinary cover about receptacles of this sort. This isan'item of great importance, since it not only enables the shipper to send the lamps for the lighting fixtures along with the xtures themselves, thus avoiding possibility of the different packages not arriving at the same time, but it also facilitates the work of the shipping clerk in making out his bills of lading, and further saves in the matter of expressage and insurance.

Having thus deScribed my invention, I claim:

A shipping package comprising an eX terior protecting casing, an interior receptacle Suspended Within said casing by means of elastics tending to restrain the receptacle against movement in all directions, oppositely directed hooks in the casing Walls to receive said elastics, and flexible securing devices for adjustably attaching the elastcs to the receptacle.

Iii-testimony whereof, I hereunto aiix my 15 signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

VILFRID LUMLE Y. Vitnesses H. R. SULLIVAN, J. M. WOODWARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

` Washington, D. C. 

